by admin | Jan 3, 2018 | Addiction Freedom, Addictions, Cravings for a Drink, Events, Moderation, Moderation Management, Recovery, Sobriety, Spirituality and Addictions
On Sunday evenings, I’m offering two innovative recovery support meetings for women The first one, at 5:30 pm, Create New Ways of Thinking to Free Yourself from Addictions with SMART, is based on the SMART Recovery Program. SMART stands for-Self Management for...
by admin | Jul 24, 2015 | AA, Addictions, Brain, Cravings for a Drink, Recovery, Sobriety, Uncategorized
Thought provoking interview with a neuroscientist about whether addiction is a disease or a compulsive behavior that has been over-learned. “Behaviors can become compulsive and hard to control but that doesn’t make it a disease.” Rather, it makes it a kind of...
by admin | Mar 5, 2015 | AA, Addiction Freedom, Addictions, Cravings for a Drink, Detox, Uncategorized
In 2006, one of the most prestigious scientific research organizations in the world, the Cochrane Collaboration, conducted a review of the many studies conducted between 1966 and 2005 and reached a stunning conclusion: No experimental studies unequivocally...
by admin | Jan 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
Have you found this to be true, that it’s the 3rd drink that does you in? I have. After the second drink, sometimes I wonder why I ordered the third drink, but by the time it’s gone, I want another and another. These are 33 reasons that third drink...
by admin | Nov 5, 2010 | AA, Addictions, Cravings for a Drink, Detox, Journal to Recovery, Recovery, Sobriety, Uncategorized
How we crave drink after drink, even though we know we will feel awful afterwards, is a lot like not being able to resist scratching a mosquito bite, even after it has started to bleed. Although the analogy has been used before, The Mosquito Bite, on Neftwink’s...